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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The game claims the door closes when Marvin enters the pantry, but it doesn't (and shouldn't) #39

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago 
>OPEN DOOR
The door is almost speechless with admiration. "Wow. Simultaneous tea and no
tea. My apologies. You are clearly a heavy-duty philosopher." It opens
respectfully.

Marvin enters a room to port, and the door closes behind him.

>WEST
Upon entering the room, you are battered by tidal waves of depression. In fact,
a lethal dose.

    ****  You have died  ****

So the door - thankfully - remains open, even after the game claims it closed.

Marvin will retire to his pantry when the ship lands, which happens shortly after you get the tea, so there's only a brief window of time where this glitch can happen. Still, I guess I-MARVIN should check so that it only prints the "and the door closes behind him" part if the door is still closed.

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

By the way, the game anticipates that you can reach Marvin's Pantry before the ship lands because there is a special case if you try to ask Marvin to open the hatch:

>MARVIN, OPEN HATCH
"Humans are so depressingly stupid. Are you aware," he asks, "that this ship is
in space, that space is an almost perfect vacuum, and that the hatch is the only
thing holding in all the air?"

That's what I was trying to test. The door thing was something I noticed quite by accident.